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Pesticide is scheduled to be sprayed Tuesday on Fire Island and in the communities of South Shirley, Mastic Beach and Old Mastic, the Suffolk County Health Department announced.

Suffolk police in Shirley are looking for a man they say tried to pull an 8-year-old boy into a van.

Suffolk County Executive Steven Levy, District Attorney Thomas Spota, County Legislator Kate Browning, Police Commissioner Richard Dormer and Sheriff Vincent DeMarco were joined by Brookhaven Town Supervisor ...

Jenn in Shirley NY said in the Shirley Forum:

We started this thread because we really want to move forward with the quality of life issues in our community, however we do not want to be associated with the Smith Point Beach Property Owners Association as long as Delia and Dominic are involved. We are for the incorporated village, but are certainly willing to listen to those who aren't and their reasons behind their decision. We however, are NOT looking to start another civic association down here. If you are fed up and frustrated and want to move forward, please email us at SMITHPOINT11967@AOL.COM and supply us with your name, address and phone number. There are a number of things in the works to get us all back on track for the betterment of OUR community. This area has so much potential. Our goal is and always has been, to make our area a wonderful place to live, where our children don't have to be afraid to walk down the street, where the section 8 renters, the sex offenders, the gangs, the run-down rental properties are no longer welcome here. We want to hear your concerns, we want to enlist your help, we want you to be an active participant in everything that happens here. So, if you are ready to move forward, please round up your neighbors and friends and email us! Thank you, Eric and Jenn Hakam

I will be working on the Quality of Life issues for this area and really need your help.

I would like each of you to please look around your neighborhood and make a list, with addresses, of things that need to be addressed. We are looking for run down properties, graffiti, abandoned properties, absentee land lords, violations, anything that you are concerned about. If you can provide pictures, that would be exctremely helpful.

Smith Point Resident said in the Shirley Forum:

I live in Smith Point, unlike Delia, and I am proud of our community and don't know where Delia comes off trying to change our boundries for the possible incorporation. Smith Point has always considered itself a waterfront community that should end somewhere around the Estates. At the incorporation meetings Delia has taken it upon herself to move the boundry up to Lawrence and the Wm. Floyd, which from what I can tell has never been considered part of Smith Point. Did anyone ask the people up there if they want to be part of Smith Point or were the people in Smith Point asked if they wanted their boundry expanded. I think not. Historic Smith Point is our community and not Delia's and she better watch what she is attempting to do. It may just come back to bite her in the a**.

I think this writer has a valid point about the bounderies. I'm curious as to why Bob Licari is the head of the village committee, when he also happens to be the President of the Woodlands Estates Property Owners Association. Also, why is the President of the Smith Point Beach Property Owners Association, Delia McKernan, also on the board of that association? Isn't this a conflict of interest?

Additionally, John's Neck, the Canal (these neighborhoods have been part of the SPBPOA boundaries since the beginning), William Floyd to Flower and the area behind Home Depot to Floyd have also been cut out of the proposed bounderies, for what purpose? .

The SPBPOA states that these area's are being cut out do to heavy rental population, however Keith Romaines office disputes this, stating there are as many rental properties on the West side of William Floyd Parkway as there are on the East side. The majority of homes in those areas are owner occupied and any rental properties that do exist could be dealt with by the incorporated village.

The proposed incorporated village can only be 5 square miles, which common sense holds true that it should begin south from the peninsula and go north, not the other way around.

A Shirley man was arrested on a charge of driving while ability impaired by drugs after his vehicle struck a Suffolk County police cruiser head-on in Mastic Beach early Saturday, sending the officer to the ... via Newsday.com

Unlicensed massage therapists in Shirley were arrested Friday for offering to perform sex acts for a fee, police said. via Newsday.com

A 52-year-old bicyclist from Mastic was "seriously injured" when he was struck by a cargo van on William Floyd Parkway in Shirley late Wednesday. via Newsday.com

“He would hold us back by our foreheads, shouting that he'd been 'green-slimed' - a term from a popular Nickelodeon television show at the time - at work and had to wash up.”

Kelly McMasters' Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town, is a story that needs to be told. via Dan's Papers

“He was a cool figure in the center of chaos”

Retired New York City Fire Department Lt. Al Warta stepped to the lectern to read a letter from firefighter Kevin J. Smith's old captain, a man who last saw Smith on Sept. via Newsday.com

“That's why we provided the leadership that was necessary to improve this vital intersection in Shirley.”

A plan by Suffolk County Executive Steven Levy to provide improvements on William Floyd Parkway where it intersects Surrey Circle will soon come to fruition in Shirley. via Empire State News

“It was just a kid playing a prank, that's all”

Four Shirley men were arrested on charges that they sprayed bullets at the front of a Yaphank pub, Suffolk police said Saturday. via Newsday.com

“I think we need a little more intervention for the young”

Parents, students and civic leaders in the Mastic area said a 17-year-old's fabricated story that she was sexually attacked on her way to William Floyd High School is another black eye for their community -- ... via Newsday.com

“Just think, if you win this game, the whole trailer park will be excited.”

Saying her co-host "never meant to hurt anyone's feelings" when he insinuated that residents of Mastic are trailer trash, Dana DiDonato defended embattled radio DJ Randy Spears Monday on "BLI in the Morning" -- ... via Newsday.com

“We have Randy right now thinking and reviewing and analyzing what was said . . . I don't want to demand an apology from anybody. I want them to, you know, wholeheartedly have their own apology.”

Long Island morning show radio DJ "Randy Spears" has agreed to "think about apologizing" for his cutting comments about Mastic residents, who he suggested during a call-in contest Wednesday all live in trailer ... via Newsday.com

“This is the most counterintuitive, insane thing I have ever heard.”

's probation department supervises between 200 and 225 undocumented immigrants who have completed their jail sentences but are not being deported, Probation Director John Desmond said Thursday. via Newsday.com

“Even if they [only] stopped and talked to the kid, it's serious”

A William Floyd High School student was approached by a man in a silver minivan as she walked to school this morning in Mastic Beach and asked if she wanted a ride, the district said this afternoon. via Newsday.com

Gentlemen, stop your engines. Two Shirley men were arrested on charges that they raced their cars down William Floyd Parkway at speeds surpassing 90 mph, Suffolk police said Saturday. via Newsday.com

“He really has made a tremendous physical recovery - actually, much more than what was expected”

A homeless Shirley man who was severely burned when another homeless man torched the van he was sleeping in is expected to testify Wedesday at his alleged attacker's arson trial. via New York Daily News

“I share the concerns of parents, community leaders and school officials over these three recent reported incidents, and am working closely with the Police Department and the community to bring back a sense of security to their streets”

On Thursday, January 17 , a man trying to lure a 12-year-old girl into his vehicle marked the third incident of such nature in two weeks in the Mastic and Shirley communities . via WALK 97.5